Destroyed buildings and burned trees surround the area in the aftermath of the fire in Lahaina as residents walk down a street on Wednesday.
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The fire at 10:25 p.m. local time on August 8, 2023, as observed by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite.
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The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023.
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Destroyed homes and buildings on the waterfront burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui.
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The fires began burning early August 8, scorching thousands of acres and putting homes, businesses and 35,000 lives at risk.
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The destroyed harbor and Front Street in the historic Lahaina Town.
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Shells of cars sit in a parking lot, comepletely destroyed by the wildfires.
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A burned boat in the Lahaina Harbor.
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A US Coast Guard vessel docking in the harbor near a destroyed building in an attempt to find survivors.
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A person walking down Front Street past destroyed, completely unrecognizable, buildings burned to the ground.
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A historic banyan tree stands along Lahaina town’s historic Front Street in February 2018, five years before the wildfires devastated the town.
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The historic Banyan tree, now burnt and barren, surrounded by burned cars in Lahaina.
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Experts say the wildfires were caused by an unusual pressure gradient as a result of Hurricane Dora, which was made worse by dry conditions.
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A Hawaii Army National Guard CH47 Chinook performs aerial water bucket drops on wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
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Passengers try to sleep on the floor of the airport terminal while waiting for delayed and canceled flights off the island as thousands of passengers were stranded at the Kahului Airport in the aftermath of wildfires.
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Passengers try to rest and sleep after canceled and delayed flights, while others wait to board flights off the island as thousands of passengers were stranded at the airport.
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Tourists who were evacuated following wild fire destruction settle for the night as they wait for a flight to leave the island of Maui at the Kahului Airport.
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Donated goods await distribution outside of a shelter at War Memorial Stadium in the aftermath of wildfires.
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The Maui wildfires have become the deadliest in the U.S. in recent years.
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The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities.
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The scene at one of Maui’s tourist hubs on Thursday shows entire blocks reduced to ashes as firefighters battled the deadly blaze.
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A sign for NOAA Art Galleries sits burnt on the sidewalk, while barren trees struggle for survival in the background.
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The wildfire washed over the town indiscriminately, torching everything in its path.
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Myrna Ah Hee reacts as she waits in front of an evacuation center at the War Memorial Gymnasium, in Wailuku, Hawaii. The Ah Hees were there because they were looking for her husband’s brother. Their own home in Lahaina was spared, but the homes of many of their relatives were destroyed by wildfires.
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What little remains of the town will have to be rebuilt, or abandoned.
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Buildings of all sizes were razed to the ground by the deadly wildfires.
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Dozens of cars sit abandoned on the road, their chassis charred and unusable.
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A woman evacuates her horse past a Maui County crew working to clear Olinda Road of wind-blown debris in the fire-threatened area of Kula, Hawaii.
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A wildfire burns in Kihei, Hawaii late Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023.
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A man, likely displaced by the fires, sits on a chair with burned vehicles and buildings in the background.
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Lahaina residents fleeing flames into the ocean.
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Lahaina were forced to take shelter from the fires in any way they could.